Gamer Codex 2012 Gaming Awards – The Genre Awards

Come one, come all, to the first annual Gamer Codex Gaming Awards, an online award show where our readers – you – select from a number of games as the “Best of” their categories. The top 4 picks are then gathered up and cut down to one winner by our staff, who will then release the results in an upcoming article.

Since making these polls takes up precious time and energy, we’ll begin with the Genre Awards. Which games improved or embraced aspects of their genres to their fullest potential? What games impressed us with how naturally they fit into these groupings?